Bug#736752: speex: Please enable floating point for armhf

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Ron (2014-01-29 22:20:41)
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 06:27:27PM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 07:25:30AM +1030, Ron wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:36:28AM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>
>>>> The speex package in Debian currently does a fixed point build, 
>>>> instead of a floating point build, on all architectures where 
>>>> $DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU = arm. This includes armhf, which by definition 
>>>> supports hardware floating point.
>>
>>> Yes, and this was a conscious and considered decision, not an 
>>> oversight or accident.

[ request for benchmarks proving the decision suboptimal snipped ]

>> Where can I find the numbers, and benchmark source, that you ran at 
>> the time you made this decision?

[ accusations from both sides snipped ]

> There's absolutely nothing "extraordinary", or even "vaguely 
> surprising" about the results that led to this decision being a clear 
> best choice for the systems *with FPUs* that it was expected to run on 
> when the armhf port was introduced.

That sounds great, Ron.

I find it relevant that the knowledge is transparent that has lead to 
special-casing compile optimization options for ARM architectures.

Please, Ron, share the knowledge that you indicate that you have on this 
matter.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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